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"Now, go to sleep, my little fish. Good night."
"What's an actor?"
"[To audience, singing] There are no strings on me! WAHH!"
"Gee, Lampwick."
"Jiminy! Jiminy, HELP!!"
"Hang on, father!"
"Now you listen to me, Pinoke!! I'm your conscience!"
"Quiet! Hey! What's going on here?"
"On Pinocchio, you mentioned something about pilot animation, and supervising animation. Finch's book [The Art of Walt Disney] is wrong on thatβit depends on who you interview. Everyone has his own little thing, and I think that the tendency among all these guys is to make themselves as important as they possibly can. I think Frank Thomas and Freddy Moore and I don't know who else were involved in experimenting around with Pinocchio. Maybe Ollie Johnston, but Johnston was kind of coming up then. So was I, really. I was quite critical of ... I have a knack for alienating people by being a little bit outspoken, and they were rather obsessed with the idea of this boy being a wooden puppet. My God, they even had this midget who did the voice for "call for Phillip Morris" as the voice for a while, and it was terrible. I was rather outspoken about it. Why didn't they forget that he was a puppet and get a cute little boy, you can always draw the wooden joints and make him a wooden puppet afterwards. And Ham Luske said, "Well, why don't you do something about it, do a scene," and I did one. What I don't remember is whether they had a new voice by then or not. Probably they did have; I don't know. I did a scene of Jiminy Cricket underwater, knocking on a shell of an oyster, saying, "Uh, pardon me, pearl. Are you acquainted with Monstro the Whale?" The shell closed up and caused a swell in the current, which affected Jiminy. I made kind of a cute little boy out of him, and Walt loved it; this was actually my big chance. It was my move into being one of the top animators."
"Special announcement! [1940 trailer announcement]"
"Disney's all-time family classic is back ...No strings attached! [1987 re-release Australia]"
"Walt Disney's Full Length FEATURE Production Pinocchio In Multiplane TECHNICOLOR"
"For The Young In Heart Of Every Age ! !"
"All The Magic Of Snow White - Yet so excitingly different ! ! !"
"A masterpiece of animation . . . a burst of fun and adventure [1985 Australian re-release]"
"...makes no difference who you are, you'll love Walt Disney's Pinocchio [1978 re-release]"
"Jiminy Cricket - what a show!"
"So wonderful you'll want to see it again! [1945 re-release]"
"Walt Disney's original classic that taught the world to Wish Upon A Star."
"Pure enjoyment... with no strings attached. [1984 re-release]"
"For anyone who has ever wished upon a star."
"The Wonder Tale The Whole World Loves!"
"For the happiest time of your life! [1962 re-release]"
"The story the whole world loves."
"When you wish upon a star, your dreams come true."
"Dickie Jones β Pinocchio"
"Cliff Edwards β Jiminy Cricket"
"Christian Rub β Geppetto"
"Barbara Luddy β Cleo"
"Walter Catlett β J. Worthington Foulfellow"
"Mel Blanc β Gideon"
"Charles Judels β Stromboli"
"Charles Judels β Coachman"
"Evelyn Venable β The Blue Fairy"
"Frankie Darro β Lampwick"
"Thurl Ravenscroft β Monstro"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.